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Do you think a TP-Link TL-WN951N with 3x TL-ANT2408CL or even TL-ANT2408C antennas would match the range of an external USB wireless device like an Alfa AWUS036NH? The range of the latter if rather impressive, but I can't get it locally.

I'm sick of f*cking weirdo Windows problems. A computer I delivered this afternoon, the customer called me (yep, on a Saturday evening, criss de Tabarnack) to tell me that he can't transfer a program from his external drive to the second partition of his main drive. Pictures and music files...

I have two X58 motherboards, one new-in-box and another one that's been used for ~6 months. I don't have any CPU to put on them. I could build two relatively modern systems with them (with i7 960 CPUs) as they both have SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 ports (Asus Sabertooth X58 and GigaByte X58-USB3)...

Two of the last three Radon HD 68xx I've bought for customers needed replacement from the get-go. No DOA, but stability issues. One had its driver constantly fail in Windows 7 and the other one refused to play nice with Adobe Flash (needed to disable hardware acceleration) and sometimes drops...

Apparently, the Crucial M4 SSD has a firmware bug that cause it to crash after 5200 hours of operation. I read this on a French news site, but you can always read that thread in Crucial's forum in which they acknowledge the problem. Crucial's employees are supposed to be working on a solution.

Here we go : CougTek : 19,311,608 points / 1335 WU P5_133XL : 18,723,465 points / 14790 WU LiamC : 15,593,864 points / 815 WU Ddrueding : 12,073,842 points / 4666 WU Sdbardwick : 6,413,227 points / 2146 WU Handruin : 3,248,633 points / 227 WU Bozo : 2,882,062 points / 1554 WU Dan_E_Shearer ...

Just visit www.mozilla.com and grab it. Also, Mozilla finally renewed their agreement with Google, so they might not go bankrupt too soon. Strangely, version 2.6 of SeaMonkey is not yet available on their site, but it is on FileHippo.com.

Died from a heart attack if what I read is correct. I won't link the article where I saw this because it's in my weird foreign language, but I'm sure you can find the news yourself. He was 69 years old. One of his sons, the youngest I think, is supposed to replace him. I don't know how it...

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I read a few reviews about the LG IPS226V monitor and they were all quite positive. Since I'm in the market for a new monitor due to some recent unfortunate events, this is the one my budget hates the less among monitors I consider to be acceptable. I can't find if it's a 6-bit or an 8-bit...

Xbit Labs reviewed the CNPS12X and, oh surprise, it's very, very good and relatively quiet. Quite a contrast with their previous circular designs. However, it costs 100$ and weights a kilogram, but you don't get that kind of cooling prowess with a cheap and light cooler.

If Mark has been able to win something there, surely you guys can too. Here's where to participate. JTR should try at the very least. I cannot participate due to my country's laws. I would post the answers, but doing so might invalidate the entries of our members. A quick read of any X79...

At iXBT Labs. Now you have no excuse to ask wether that card is better or worse than that other one. Unless it's a card from a previous generation not included in that article.

Is it just me or is the forum time still on DST instead of the normal Winter time?

Here's a question for Paugie, because he's the closest around here to Sumatra. Are people living there color-blind? Because that's the only explanation I have for the color used in Sumatra PDF reader. Great little program, but no one normal can like yellow that much. It's got to be a...

Look at this upcoming AsRock board and guess what's so horrible about it. See it? Yes! A freaking fan! I thought they were gone forever but no, some ass decided to put fans again on motherboards! This is Hell. Humanity is doomed.

Source Like Hitachi did before with their 7K1000.D drive, Seagate will put 1TB-platters in their 7200rpm drives, but unlike Hitachi, they won't limit the capacity to 1TB. Up to 3TB for now, with 4TB planned soon. Drives will be available in two weeks. However, they will cut the warranty of...

The Bears won, but damn they like to complicate their lives sometimes. That game was in their pocket and they almost found a way to lose it. I miss the days when Singletary, Refrigerator Perry and Walter Payton were on the team...

I probably asked about it before, but since I apparently have an Alzheimer moment, I'll ask again : what program do you use to follow the temperature of your graphic card? I use MSI Afterburner, but I'm sure there are several others, some that might be better.

I've only read this at one place so I'm not completly sure it's not a prank, but I wouldn't be surprised since he was suffering from cancer. Source

I need to recommend a tablet PC to a business customer and I hesitate between the two models mentioned in this thread's title. Lenovo generally makes above-average products, but the Samsung Galaxy series receive good reviews on many websites. The tablet will be used to fill excel templates and...

Greater than ever...or not. Head on to Adobe to infect...errr, I mean, to upgrade your PC.

What's the difference between those two models? The second is only sold at one of my suppliers and it's a lot more expensive than the first, yet their specifications look similar.

The move to spin out the computers divison from HP is probably what sink him. I don't know if Meg Whitman will reverse that decision. Announcement

It's sure to be popular with the West Coast cartel (SSDdrueding and Santilli) : http://www.gigabyte.sg/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3508 That's a VM monster machine. Only 470$, supposedly.

RAM price have started to rise today. If you haven't stocked yet, I suggest you do. You've read it first here.

For a small office with only 3 computers, but plans to add a few others, would you setup a central server with Server 2008 or just keep separated Win 7 Pro installations on each computers and not bother with running a server? The users are standard office workers without technical knowledge...

I need to block the use of an optical drive on a Thinkpad T60. The drive must not be broken physically. I see nothing in the BIOS to deactivate it. Simply deactivating it in the Device Manager is not enough as the user could be wise enough to look there. I must leave the account with...

One company contacted me today to advertise on Google. They were quite agressive and tried to push their advertisement down my throat for almost 15 minutes. I finally asked the guy for his phone number and told him that I would contact him if/when I'll feel the need for it. The company's...

Thermalright bewares that the enclosure should be 190mm or more in order to fit the Thermalright Archon, but many 195mm or more cases say they are only compatible with 160-165mm tall heatsinks or less. The Thermalright archon is 170mm. The Silverstone TJ08-E is 210mm wide, but they warn that...

Press release It will use Intel's 25nm MLC NAND chips, be available in 200GB and 400GB capacities, will be in a 2.5" format and connect via SAS interface, will be very fast and even more expensive. The press release mentions 495MB/s reads and 385Mb/s writes. So I expect it to be like an OCZ...

You can download it here and read the release notes here.

All I see these days are ultra-basic PCI audio card and everything else seems to have moved to the PCI-E interface. I have a customer who needs an SPDIF and can only plug a card into a PCI slot. I don't care about the audio processor. I only care about the price : cheap.

Anyone knows if the Western Digital WD10EALX (1TB, SATA 6Gbps) has the advanced formating or the older 512KB sectors? I have to build a new computer with Windows XP on it and it's the only drive I have in stock. Speed will suck if it has the new sector size.

I can no longer play any flash video on my main Windows 7 box. It worked yesterday. It no longer does today. I have not upgraded the version of the player. The computer did not stopped (no shutdown ; it's running the F@h client 24x7), no updates to Windows were installed, I did no update...

I'm pissed. My dream of building the perfect computer cannot be realised. I cannot find a motherboard, ideally a reasonnably-priced motherboard, with two 4-pins CPU fan connectors. Why do I need this? Well, the most efficient coolers on the market need two fans in order to achieve top...

...in SunSpider javascript benchmark at least. On my modest main computer (Core i7 950 with Win7 64b), their scores are the following : Firefox 5.0 : 316.4ms ± 1.1% Chrome 12 : 316.4ms ± 2.1% Opera 11.11 : 309.5ms ± 2.2% So considering the margin of error, we can safely say that they are all...

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I need to keep a man alive for 3 days with the minimal amount of food possible, or at the very least the least expensive food possible. I know I could just have him drink water since it takes more than 3 days to starve to death, but I need him to be able to perform intellectual tasks and...

News link It would still be impossible to recover datqa in case the drive's controller dies, unlike magnetic drives.

My car is going to let me down sooner than later. It's passed 200,000Km and the engine has been noisy for the last half-year at least. I don't expect it to last another two years, so I'm starting to look for a new vehicle. My finances are precarious these days and therefore, the vehicles I...

I'm stuck with an hopeless Outlook case. I don't know where to begin with, so I'll relate the events in chronological order. First, one customer, for which I did a fresh Windows 7 install a few weeks ago, came back with issues with his Outlook 2002 unable to receive e-mails. I told him it was...

Official announcement Big lines : 300GB, 600GB and 1.2TB capacities. Up to 950MBps reads and 1000MBps writes. Uses MLC. Made of four SandForce 1565 controllers. Plugs into a PCI-E 2.0 slot. Does not support Virtualized Controller Architecture. And probably fucking expensive too. One more...

I've had this problem before, but this evening, I'm burned out and I can't figure out how to fix it. There's a junk echo/reverb problem with the Windows sound (but not when you play a video) on the two used computer systems I purchased today. I did a clean install on them. I used the driver...

Source IMO, they should build it anyway and blow up Lucasfilm's headquarters with it afterward.

I can sell (again) cards that haven't been officially released yet. Those are the GigaByte GV-R667OC-1GI and GV-R657OC-1GI. According to what I've found on the Net, the Radeon HD 6670 and 6570 are supposed to be OEM only. The specifications are very close to those of the old Radeon HD 5670...

Source I'm eager to read Santilli lament that he ruined a few thousand bucks in equipment by trying to run them in a fish tank ;)

It's quite well made : http://www.solarsystemscope.com/

This f**king malware is a tough bitch to kill. It survives Spybot S&D, MalwareBytes, Superantispyware, SmitFraudFix, Combofix and all the free antivirus programs (normal since it's not a virus per se). I searched Google and found this, which seems too simple to work, but I'll try it. Also...

I found something cool : http://www.linuxforge.net/bonuscalc2.php Now you'll have a pretty good idea of how many points to expect from the units you're computing.